Here's a nice podcast from "Cars Yeah with Mark Green"

The focus is on "Cars and EVs" but the conversation gives a nice introduction to Raj.

One little thing that most people don't know about Raj- he enjoys creative writing when he has more time on his hands. 

Raj loves cars. Had a 1st Gen Nissan Leaf (2011). Polar vortex overwhelmed the car- Raj couldn't run the heater or windshield wipers and do the full commute without exceeding the battery capacity.

Other highlights (note, nothing new here but you get to hear the words coming straight from the mouth of Raj):

• He has worked at Electrovaya for 13 years
• Ph.D. in electrochemistry (started at MIT with Donald Sadoway but completed at Cambridge with Derek Frey)
• Worked with mom in the late 1990s on the conversion of a Suzuki Samurai into an electric vehicle
• Chrysler plug-in battery system (~200 batteries) in 2010. 140 Dodge Ram, 60-80 minivans.
• Tata motors fully electric car developed for Norway.
• Exxon Mobile (~2010) low-speed vehicle car-sharing program in Baltimore (10-15 cars)
• Smart car battery for Daimler (with Literion and their full ceramic separator)
• Electrovaya specializes in "extremely long-life batteries" (estimates Infinity battery will give ~10,000 cycles or 3 million miles). Raj compares this to his BMW i3 which should give 1000 cycles and recognizes that passenger vehicles don't need Electrovaya battery's cycle life thus the focus on lift trucks.
• Electrovaya Labs working on next-gen lithium-ion technology (solid-state) aiming for 2X density of standard cells (on a volumetric basis) would allow for electric airplanes or long-distance trucking.
• The future is coming down pretty quick- however, to date, no one has commercialized solid state
• Doesn't see conventional technology being a limiting factor for present-day electric vehicles e.g. Tesla.
• A lot of solid-state research groups are able to make it work in the lab- small cells, electrolytes are produced in ways that can't be mass-produced. The challenge is figuring out how to make solid-state at scale, cost-effectively so that it can displace current technology.
• Says that Electrovaya is going to have an advantage in facing this challenge because of the company's production skills.
• Wants to see Electrovaya come back into the passenger car space (via solid state technology)

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/23767106/tdest_id/2263823